Floods
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health. Human changes to the environment often increase the intensity and frequency of flooding, for example land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course such as with levees, and larger environmental issues such as climate change and sea level rise. Floods …
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PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 21 November 2024 English
A displaced person in Chad shared: “These displacements are observed in the localities of the two provinces [Lac and Hadjer-Lamis] but more severely in the villages and islands of the …
FLOODS IN THE LAKE CHAD BASIN: The Climate-Displacement Nexus RIDA LYAMMOURI & BOGLARKA BOZSOGI PB - … have been displaced and 30 lives lost due to the floods,9 marking it as Borno’s worst flood disaster in … whose homes and lands have been destroyed.14 “The floods have caused displacement of people with their belongings … 16. Reliefweb, “UNICEF Chad Flash Update No.4 (Floods) – 25 October 2024,” 25 October 2024, https://reliefweb … int/report/chad/unicef- chad-flash-update-no-4-floods-25-october-2024 17. TV5 Monde, “Tchad : mobilisation …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 21 November 2024 English
Climate change doesn’t just bring about higher temperatures, but floods. In the UK, flooding is the biggest natural hazard. Maeve Sherry argues that the best way to defend urban areas from flood risk is …
doesn’t just bring about higher temperatures, but floods. In the UK, flooding is the biggest natural hazard …
GFATM: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · 20 November 2024 English
diseases to save lives and The Global Fund increases dramatically change the course access to high-quality health of HIV, TB and malaria. [...] Strengthening the leadership, engagement and capacity of …
in the unprecedented the Global Fund partnership floods in Sindh province, Pakistan, million has helped …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 15 November 2024 English
posed by climate change. Over 80 percent of the weather-related hazards reported in Asia in 2023 were floods and storms, affecting more than nine million people. [1] In Africa, climate-related disasters annually …
weather-related hazards reported in Asia in 2023 were floods and storms, affecting more than nine million people … of climate change independently; for instance, floods in one part of the world often have little impact …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 15 November 2024 English
This document outlines the initiation and early stages of a Technical Assistance project designed to enhance the capacity of Mauritania's National Committee on Public Debt (CNDP) in the areas of …
disaster-related shocks, including droughts and floods. Furthermore, the project intends to empower the …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 14 November 2024 English
Shelton Nyakundi, an 18-year-old student at the Menengai boarding school in Nakuru, Kenya, believes one simple thing could make the difference between the academic success and failure of many pupils: …
City: How San Salvador is using nature to fight floods Related ContentSPEECH Connected action for a connected …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 14 November 2024 English
Pakistan’s tight fiscal situation will require strong control over the budget in coming years. This report provides recommendations on steps to strengthen the country’s fiscal institutions to deliver a more …
Multiple external shocks and the unprecedented floods in 2022 have buffeted the economy and the government’s … several factors. These include the devastating floods of 2022, with losses estimated at 5 percent of … undertake emergency measures in response to the floods, the slowdown in economic growth and the rise … various factors such as responses to devastating floods, rising interest payments, but also significant …
Parents for Climate · 14 November 2024 English
This report, co-published with the Climate Council, examines the dual crises of cost of living and climate change, detailing how fossil fuels exacerbate inflation and financial pressure on Australian families. …
gas is fuelling increasingly severe bushfires, floods, heatwaves and destructive storms. As a result … everyone From the Black Summer bushfires to the 2022 floods in Queensland and New South Wales, Australians … leading to unnatural disasters: more extreme floods, storms, bushfires, heat and droughts. We have … their belongings by boat during the March 2022 floods. Australian families and communities are on the …
World Bank Group · 14 November 2024 French
the project area. They will reduce the erosion, floods, landslides, gullies and riverbed and bank collapses …
CEC: Chaire Economie du Climat · 14 November 2024 English
- from December 2013 to November 2014: Principal Investigator, contract between the AEEGSI and the Department of Economics and Management, task: evaluation of potential interventions into the Italian national electricity …
CAPORIN M., FONTINI F. Damages Evaluation, Periodic Floods, and Local Sea Level Rise: The Case of Venice, …
